Petroleum cracking Burton process

The first commercial Tube-and-Tank cracking plant came on line in 1922. Overall, compared to the Burton Process, the Tube-and-Tank Process allowed larger volumes of petroleum to be processed under conditions of intense cracking and longer production cycles. 

The first synthetic indigo was produced in 1917. Until the development of the Burton process for cracking hydrocarbons in 1913, the petroleum industry had been confined to separating from the crude the... 

The Burton process is usually viewed as the first great advance in petroleum cracking over those adapted from coal tar cracking. The major advance introduced in this process was the feature of conducting the cracking at elevated pressures and the significant increase in gasoline yield (/). 

Burton The first commercial process for thermally cracking heavy petroleum fractions to obtain gasoline. Invented in 1912 by W. M. Burton at Standard Oil (Indiana) and operated commercially from 1913 through the 1920s. See also Dubbs. 

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